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Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able

From "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able
Date 2017-02-17 06:10 +0100
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On 02/16/17 15:27, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> 
> That is obvious. Do you think that Multiboot/Multiboot2 protocols are
> substantially suboptimal?
> 

Yes.  They push a lot of things into the bootloader for no good reason,
thus tying the kernel's hands and making the whole boot process more
fragile.

It isn't either like Grub has been very good about keeping to any spec,
their own or others.

	-hpa

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[RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com> - 2017-02-15 16:00 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-02-15 17:50 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com> - 2017-02-16 03:20 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able hpa@zytor.com - 2017-02-15 19:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2017-02-15 21:20 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able hpa@zytor.com - 2017-02-15 22:00 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com> - 2017-02-16 03:10 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl> - 2017-02-17 00:40 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2017-02-17 06:10 +0100
            Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/boot: make ELF kernel multiboot-able Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl> - 2017-02-20 19:50 +0100

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